i realized i listen to a hell of a lot of music on youtube, i find rare tracks linking to other rare tracks, forgotten tracks , favorite tracks, that lead to something you never heard of, and so on, theres even full albums on there now and enough to revisit or discover just like the singles , youtube has become the ultimate music portal, ill look up original songs from samples in songs, all that, and 90 percent of the time its on there,

so with all that said , what are your thoughts on this, why does it seem youtube hasnt stepped up and enhanced their site for this aspect, how do music artists feel about most to all their music available on it

just a seed of a thought ill drop in here

Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:32 pm

Captiv8

Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 8546
Location: Third Coast

I occasionally look songs up on youtube if I don't have them and I have an urge to hear them. Sometimes, like yourself, I look up stuff that is rare or difficult to come by, and even not available for purchase. Other than that, I stick to my own music collection. Youtube is also full of pricks, bigots, racists, and otherwise ignorant people, which can be infuriating.

Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:01 am

knowrites

Joined: 05 Apr 2007
Posts: 2060

Captiv8 wrote: I occasionally look songs up on youtube if I don't have them and I have an urge to hear them. Sometimes, like yourself, I look up stuff that is rare or difficult to come by, and even not available for purchase. Other than that, I stick to my own music collection. Youtube is also full of pricks, bigots, racists, and otherwise ignorant people, which can be infuriating.

this is basically why i i hate the internet now.

Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:24 pm

NeuroA champion of Kurtis SP

Joined: 19 Jul 2002
Posts: 7852

i ignore the comment section, but most give me a chuckle

Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:40 pm

Captiv8

Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 8546
Location: Third Coast

knowrites wrote:

Captiv8 wrote: I occasionally look songs up on youtube if I don't have them and I have an urge to hear them. Sometimes, like yourself, I look up stuff that is rare or difficult to come by, and even not available for purchase. Other than that, I stick to my own music collection. Youtube is also full of pricks, bigots, racists, and otherwise ignorant people, which can be infuriating.

Captiv8 wrote: I occasionally look songs up on youtube if I don't have them and I have an urge to hear them. Sometimes, like yourself, I look up stuff that is rare or difficult to come by, and even not available for purchase. Other than that, I stick to my own music collection. Youtube is also full of pricks, bigots, racists, and otherwise ignorant people, which can be infuriating.

Captiv8 wrote: I occasionally look songs up on youtube if I don't have them and I have an urge to hear them. Sometimes, like yourself, I look up stuff that is rare or difficult to come by, and even not available for purchase. Other than that, I stick to my own music collection. Youtube is also full of pricks, bigots, racists, and otherwise ignorant people, which can be infuriating.

this is basically why i i hate the internet now.

Which part? The "culture" of youtube?

i feel like ignorance is the opposite of culture.

Plum Puddin' wrote:

knowrites wrote: this is basically why i i hate the internet now.

That's like hating the beach coz someone pooped in the sand.

but like if someone pooped on ALL the sand.

Isn't it more like there's the beach there's the sand and there's a river of poop that runs through it

The poop river is optional, no ones forcing you to jump in, you can't just jump in the poop and complain about smelling sh1t

Mon Sep 24, 2012 2:19 am

anomalyLoserface

Joined: 22 May 2008
Posts: 2625
Location: DFW, TX

I wish there was a Youtube without the video part. I could give two shits about wasting bandwidth streaming shitty pics someone put to a song.

Especially at work. Give me audio only and help me stop pissing IT off.

Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:39 am

futuristxen

Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 19377
Location: Tighten Your Bible Belt

I use spotify. No comments section. Full albums. No videos. For the most part they have everything I've ever thought to search for. It's fun to go on a binge through the related artist function as well.

It is IMO the most streamlined, fastest, way to find new music without going through a mile of crap to get to it.

I kind of loathe youtube links because it means I have to stop everything I'm doing to get them going, and my internet is slow, so it is sometimes stuttering at first. Whereas if you give me a name, I plug it into spotify and go from there.

Plus whatever I want that's not on spotify, I can just load it up in my personal library and I'm good.

It's the way all things should function.

I also like Amazon's Instant video service where I can access my movies whereever I am at any time. It's like a netflix that I build.

Of course the downside with cloud based stuff is when the internet goes kerputt you're a bit screwed. So it's good to have SOME music that's not on the internet.

Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:28 am

tommi teardrop

Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Posts: 2218
Location: Las Vegas

I fucks with youtube to play songs in a pinch. Sometimes its the just the quickest and easiest way. You can open multiple pages and DJ with youtube as well if you're really desperate at someone else's house. I think I found Cage's first cameo on Pete Nice's album on youtube and I couldn't find that shit anywhere.

But yeah I'm a spotify addict as well. The only thing that's been bothering me is all the edited and chopped & screwed version of albums coming up. And only a few mixtapes on there.

I hardly ever access my harddrive for music anymore.

Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:02 pm

Captiv8

Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 8546
Location: Third Coast

Does anyone here just listen to albums in their entirety any more?

Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:06 pm

NeuroA champion of Kurtis SP

Joined: 19 Jul 2002
Posts: 7852

thats how i listen any album just about always

Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:13 pm

tommi teardrop

Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Posts: 2218
Location: Las Vegas

Yeah I still listen to some full albums on spotify.

Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:32 am

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